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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Georges Braque

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Georges Braque
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 13
Died: 1963
Died: August 31
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
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With age, art and life become one.
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It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
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Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
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Whatever is in common is true but likeness is false.
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
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Critics should help people see for themselves they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
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Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
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Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.
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I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
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